Thursday, October 15, 2026
CCAs and Autonomy Gain Momentum as Focus of Future Force
Aviation

CCAs and Autonomy Gain Momentum as Focus of Future Force

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—For the past four years, the idea of autonomous drone warfare like Collaborative Combat Aircraft has been discussed as a future concept, rather than near-term reality.  But now that promised vision appears imminent, with the Air Force promising at least 1,000 such drones by 2032. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink kicked off AFA’s…

Boeing Awarded Contract to Build U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX Fighter
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Boeing Awarded Contract to Build U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX Fighter

Boeingn has won the U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX competition for the sixth-generation carrier-based fighter, with a contract valued at more than $20B for the full-scale development phase. After months of wait, the U.S. Navy has finally announced Boeing as the winner of the competition for the F/A-XX sixth-generation carrier-based fighter as part of the service’s Next…

New Russian attack drones found to use Chinese turbojet engines
Aviation

New Russian attack drones found to use Chinese turbojet engines

A captured Geran-4 one-way attack drone is confirmed to have Telefly TF-TJ2000A engines. Some of Russia’s new high-performance attack drones are powered by Chinese jet engines. A captured Geran-4 one-way attack system was found to contain a single turbojet engine from Chinese manufacturer Telefly when the kamikaze drone was dissected by the US government-backed news…